The project was initially conceived as a collective activity where participants were invited to take part in blindfolded exploratory expeditions in two areas of the central district of the city of São Paulo. Those exercises consisted in covering a route deprived of sight – guided by a partner who was not blindfolded – and from this, produce oral and written reports of the experience. Before each exercise, for each pair was handed a written document with instructions for the creative development of the exercise. However, there were no definitive rules since the idea was that the creation of the activity should be a joint collaboration with the participants. The only set rule involved was the exchange of position between the two people in the pair: each one should guide and be guided. The goal is that everyone experimented the city space in two different ways and with this, each person created two parallel narratives. 

Each group, with around 20 participants, was formed by a diverse configuration: people of different ages (from 19 to 56 years) and different knowledges (journalists, historians, photographers, teachers, artists). Each walk lasted approximately three hours followed by another two hours of recording exercises (talks, writing, drawing).

As well as the sensorial experience, the activity also included another important component: trust. Trust in relation to me, who proposed a blindfolded exercise to walk in not entirely safe or pleasant locations of the city. Trust among the participants who, even without knowing each other, committed themselves to others, becoming partners and responsible for each other´s life during the activity. 

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